This is Class 2 of the MOOC Specialization, Become a Sustainable Business Change Agent.
In this class you will learn more change agent skills and hear from people who have made changes in their organizations.
You will also learn more about green design and sustainability reporting.
The skills from this class will help improve products and services in your company or help the company issue its first, or an improved sustainability report.

From the lesson

Green Design

IntroductionThis module introduces the key ideas of green design or design for the environment (DfE). The design phase of a product or building usually only absorbs a small fraction of the entire budget, but determines the product's or building's impact for years to come. Therefore, getting design right is crucial to achieving sustainability. Once your company has designed and developed a good product you need to convey that to consumers. We talk about labeling as one means of doing this. We also discuss problems with 'greenwashing' or over-stating a product's green attributes. In this module we introduce Life-Cycle Assessment (sometimes Life-Cycle Analysis or LCA). This is a powerful tool for identifying where a product's major impact comes from, which allows the company to redesign targeting those high impact areas. Next week we practice doing an LCA.